Quotes about Oppression
If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.
— Malcolm X
It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.
— John Updike
Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.
— DH Lawrence
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
— DH Lawrence
To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.
— Euripides
If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
— Gloria Steinem
Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.
— Malcolm X
The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!
— Malcolm X
...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.
— Malcolm X